Find abundance in your community with the Oasis game
Ben Mates, Salt Lake Center for Engaging Community’s director of sustainability, will be facilitating “The Oasis Game” at the Salt Lake City Bioneers Conference that happens October 28 and October 29, 2011 at Westminster College.
The Oasis Game was created by the Elos Institute in Santos, Brazil. It is designed to empower communities to create a better world with resources readily available in the community rather than waiting for the government or some other funding agency to provide the resources for change.
“People can see they have a lot that they can draw on to move the community in the direction they want,” says Mates.
The game is designed to be done over the course of two days or two weeks depending on the need in the community. Projects like refurbishing a community square or creating a community garden have resulted from Oasis Games in other areas of the world.
Mates will try to convey the essential parts of the Oasis Game in the hour and 15 minutes that he will be speaking at Bioneers.
“People can take that [information] and adapt it to their own needs,” says Mates. “It is applicable in any community where people think they are constrained by limits.”
This article originally appeared at examiner.com. Links updated Feb. 2017.
The Oasis Game was created by the Elos Institute in Santos, Brazil. It is designed to empower communities to create a better world with resources readily available in the community rather than waiting for the government or some other funding agency to provide the resources for change.
“People can see they have a lot that they can draw on to move the community in the direction they want,” says Mates.
The game is designed to be done over the course of two days or two weeks depending on the need in the community. Projects like refurbishing a community square or creating a community garden have resulted from Oasis Games in other areas of the world.
Mates will try to convey the essential parts of the Oasis Game in the hour and 15 minutes that he will be speaking at Bioneers.
“People can take that [information] and adapt it to their own needs,” says Mates. “It is applicable in any community where people think they are constrained by limits.”
This article originally appeared at examiner.com. Links updated Feb. 2017.